I am offended therefore I am. I hope to live long enough to see the day when people regain the courage and common sense to tell those claiming offence and therefore some kind of entitlement to buggar off and to ignore them.

lolwut?

Seems that’s exactly what happened.

Now we just need the courts and the Crazy town human rights commissions do the same.

Justin St.Denis

I tell the offended to go fuck a grapefruit whenever they raise their whiny voices. It’s easy, it’s fun, and it’s satisfying. Sometimes I change the fruit from grapefruit to watermelon, or HoneyDew melon, or even pineapple! I like to embrace fruity diversity.

Petey

A fellow and I did that to some millenial snowflake after she complained about him lighting up a cigarette a few yards downwind from a bus stop.

No harm to anyone despite the signs.

Didn’t the eff words fly from her.

One guy called her on the swearing because there was very quite young children by. Her response was, “There are no signs against swearing.” That was it. That was her thinking.

Effing ’em. Eff ’em all.

Petey

So what I’m saying is, even in small groups you can shut these people down.

DaninVan

Flash: you go to a public place you’re going to hear stuff that irritates you in any number of ways. (Just to be clear, I do empathize with her over having been raped.)

lolwut?

If she was even raped. it could be just a made up story to get attention.

Blacksmith

My thoughts as well.

ntt1

was she a journalist then?

Joseph Shmeau

She is a “23-year-old English graduate” and she was in a gay bar.

The defence rests.

Blacksmith

Strangely enough the entire world does NOT revolve around her.

On another point her whining makes me uncomfortable, it actually pisses me off, she should therefore apologize to me and, make me a sammich!

Justin St.Denis

Even in her alleged rapist’s world, her name barely merits a mention. She needs to know that.

kkruger71

WTF did we do before this? I’ve had situations where something brought back horrible memories, so you know what I did? I exited the situation so as to not bring everyone else down. This isn’t even the peanut/perfume type argument where there is some sort of physical risk, or a school or work environment where leaving isn’t an option. Clubs are no longer allowed to play a number 1 single because it brought back a bad memory for her? I bet if you looked there isn’t a single song out there that doesn’t have a horrible connotation for somebody, with the possible exception of Safety Dance. That song’s just fun.

different times, different outlook; everyone is offended. It offends me that at my work they have us take anti-racism courses. How dare they assume I am a racist? Not to mention the nonsense of instructions how to wash your hands in every washroom. Ban public washrooms, I say!!!!

FactsWillOut

Yeah. They tell you to use the paper towel to turn off the taps, but they force one to touch the doorknob to leave.

Surele Surele

Oh, no. they removed all the paper towels: we have to use hand dryers. Electrical. Did you ever try to turn off a tap using an electric hand dryer? It’s a bitch, I tell you. But the posters remain unchanged.

Blacksmith

Not to mention all the microbes that are now airborne from the blower.

lolwut?

They banned doorknobs in BC last year.

Not because of that, but people with disabilities who have problems using them.

So if you need to go to the can, come to BC. lol

Justin St.Denis

Proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that KNOBS form the majority of B.C. politicians (and the people who voted for them). The Wild West has evolved into The Whiny West. Must be the high percentage of fruits and nuts who live there.

ntt1

you forgot the flakes thousands of flakes

Alain

Actually unless I am totally mistaken that was Vancouver with their Tides funded mayor, not all of BC.

lolwut?

Ah well, so many stupid things these morons in BC come up with Backyard chickens, Condo gardens, Crackpipe vending machines,

community gardens and stupid composting rules that have caused an already enormous rat problem to explode…..Building housing for junkies and the “Hard to house” in the same buildings as $150-250,000 condos. the list goes on and on and on.

Vancouver is a giant toilet floating in a beautiful toilet. can’t wait until I can afford to move up the coast to a barely populated community.

Alain

All that is again Vancouver with their Tides funded mayor to support the UN Agenda 21.

lolwut?

Same kind of shit is going on in Victoria and Abbotsford to name a couple of places, it’s not just Vancouver., They just embrace that sort of nuttiness a little quicker then the rest.

If you’re a junkie they’ll hand you a key to the city.

ntt1

while i live north of Vancouver i haven;t been downtown for at least five years, moon beam has made the big smoke hostile to car traffic and the straight white males that drive them.

ntt1

this is true but the flap type door handle lever can be opened with an elbow. i installed them in my house because you can open the door while loaded with kids ,cats. groceries, and while my disabilities seem limited to moral ones , they are quite useful.

lolwut?

I’m not against it, but that is the least of BC issues. They could have made it a requirement on all new buildings without the fanfare making it out like levers on doors are the cure to all of Vancouver’s ills.

That being said, the DTES is being cleaned up pretty good however one of the side effects is the junkies and other riff raff are beginning to feel the squeeze, violence in the area is now pretty common when it used to be rare.

The jail at on Powell street behind 222 Main is being converting into a treatment center, maybe they’ll be holding these people a little longer.

Waffle

If you’re white, you’re a racist ;);)

Surele Surele

guilty…

Justin St.Denis

I gave up being offended decades ago, around the same time that I realized that much of this world appalls me. Being offended is kid-stuff. To the finer educated mind, the appalling can nonetheless be very entertaining. Comedy films rarely make me laugh, but I get giddy at how appalling most things and people actually are whenever I step outside my home. Life and the world are fucking hysterical.

dance…dancetotheradio

I get offended at things in the way Jerry Seinfeld does. When Watley, his dentist, converts to Judaism for the jokes, a priest in a confession booth asks him if that offends him as a Jew. Jerry says, no, it offends him as a comedian.

Surele Surele

You’re so right. I just need to sit at my desk in my office. Just hilarious. Types passing in front of my desk, the questions they ask… sometimes you need all your strength to not burst out in laughter. Where are those people coming from?

Justin St.Denis

My wife refers to their origins as Planet Elsewhere. I kinda like that label.

Surele Surele

I like it too. May I borrow it?

Justin St.Denis

Absolutely! I “borrowed it” a few years ago myself, and use it all the time. It fits in so many situations. 😉

canminuteman

One of my mess mates at CFB Petawawa was an artillery officer. he was telling me about being the range safety officer for a battery of 105 howitzers, and how he had to run around to each gun after a fire order had been given to ensure that they were all properly aimed. He referred to this evolution as the “Safety Dance”, I can’t hear that song without remembering that story.

lolwut?

Most people don’t even know what a lot of famous songs are even about.

A prime example: The Police: “Every breath you take” it’s a song about a guy stalking his ex-girlfiend, but girls love dancing to it.

This is my favourite REM song. And it’s a stalker song, too. I never got the girl. But, I was right. She didn’t care about that guy she was making it with. Did me a favour in the end. She didn’t choose me, either.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TGtb7QsG9w

Clausewitz

I play in a couple of wedding bands and this is one of the most requested first songs. My reply is, “You really need to go back and listen to the lyrics”. It’s a freakin’ stalker song you idiots.

Justin St.Denis

And MONY MONY, too. Some songs are sacred!

Cat-astrophe

Well, how about that. She found out how compassionate her brethren really are. You came here to be gay beeautch, so be gay! Only tell you troubles to the straight folks, ’cause we here are quite insane.

I find overhearing Wake Me Up Before You Go Go by Wham potentially problematic as many enjoy sleeping in.

FactsWillOut

OT: Guy walks into a Muslim bookstore in the States. Owner comes up to him and says “Can I help you?”, guy says “Yes, I was looking for Donald Trump’s book on illegal immigration, especially as it applies to Muslims.” Owner say “Fuck off and get outta here! And don’t come back!” Guy says “Yep, That’s the one!”.

Cat-astrophe

I just wish Wholesale Muslim immigration was laughable.

funnyboy

love it!!!!!

Justin St.Denis

My very strange wife ( sorry Waffle! There I go again, flaunting my heteronormative private life!) once walked into a muslim bookstore in downtown Toronto and innocently asked the proprietor if he had any copies of the Kama Sutra “…you know, the one about all the Hindu sex positions. It’s always illustrated and usually in color. Do you have one?” The proprietor looked as if he was having a stroke! Funny shit! My wife still cracks me up after all these years…

Xavier

Now that’s rich.

dance…dancetotheradio

Did he recommend The Joy of Blow Jobs by Snaggle Tooth?

dance…dancetotheradio

My Dad’s favourite joke: A paki comes up to me the other day and asks for a dollar to help him get back to the old country. I said, I’ll give you five bucks if you promise to take four of your buddies with you.

Hard Little Machine

The retard army eats itself.

Justin St.Denis

Unfortunately, the rest of us have to watch. On the bright side, one can always play MY SHARONA at earsplitting volume while singing all the dirty lyrics. Good times.

So, is this bitch planning on calling every radio station that plays the song when they play it, editing her friends’ music collections in order to remove that song, complaining to mall/restaurant management whenever the song comes over their speakers, and generally behave like an attention-seeking toddler for the rest of her fucking life? Oh, excuse me! Fucking will NOT be on her agenda, I suspect. Ever. My bad.

Snowflakes melt. Tough shit.

dance…dancetotheradio

I have to listen to all the Can Con bullshit they play on 92 SHITI FM at work every day. My ears get raped by Sloan, Tom Cochrane, Neil Young, The Tea Party (aka the Fake Doors), Moist. And 54 40 had other songs beside Ocean Pearl. It was called Baby Ran.

Al_the_Fish

You can always listen to Dahlia on CJOB instead of 92. Yes, I just macro-aggressed you. 😉

dance…dancetotheradio

Tell you what. I’d rather that Dahlia than the god awful Richard Cloutier. Especially when he gets all earnest and compassionate like a goddamned Maury Povich.

Petey

So much for the British stiff upper lip. Keep it to yourself lady. No one wants to here about your problems.

Speaksvolumes

The stoic tradition of the British stiff upper lip died with a car crash in a Paris auto tunnel.